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What is a raid?

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RAID is short for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. It's a cheap and efficient way of preventing data loss by keeping a copy of all data on two or more hard drives.
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RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. It is a storage setup that utilizes multiple independent hard drives to store information. The data in the hard drives are stored in a redundant way, such that a failure in one drive does not lead to data loss. A simple way to setup a RAID is to have two hard drives, with the information one one being an exact duplicate of the other. If one drive fails, the data on the other drive is available to prevent data loss.
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